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Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2) QUOTES

Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2) QUOTES

1 " As it happens I’ve spent a night and a day going through your records. Fascinating stuff.” Kempis took a roll of parchment from his cloak and tossed it onto the desk. “You know what really bugs me?” Enli steepled his hands. “I’m on tenterhooks.” “Anolamies.” “Anomalies?” “Them too. "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)

2 " Sometimes memories warm you, but more often they serve only to remind you of things lost. To live with the past, you need to have a future too. "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)

3 " Life or death decided by a hairbreadth. That's just the way it was. "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)

4 " The kalischa held back a smile. Faith? What was faith but the last bastion of those who had abandoned all grip on reason? "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)

5 " the same sorcery that had defeated the attempts of Senar and a handful of other Guardians to punch through the gates of the titan fortress in Karalat two years ago. Memories of that day came back to him: shoving Luker Essendar aside so he could be first up the ladder to the battlements, arrows flitting through an evening sky shot through with bronze "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)

6 " The gods cared nothing for the fate of mortals, and those who prayed to them for benediction were no less fools than those who railed against them when the winds of fortune turned contrary. The truth was, people believed in divine stewardship because they wanted to believe the gods would protect them. Because it was safer to have faith in some higher order than it was to acknowledge the precariousness of their lives. "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)

7 " Regrets, she’d always considered, were for those stupid enough to think tomorrow might hold less disappointment than today. "

― Marc Turner , Dragon Hunters (The Chronicles of the Exile, #2)